Media Releases
Queensland Labor must finish what they started: stand up for farmers facing impacts from mining and gas
November 27, 2017
Lock the Gate welcomes the likely return of a Queensland Labor Government as an opportunity to fully implement its agenda and protect Queensland’s precious agricultural land and water resources from incompatible mining and gas developments. “This election, thousands of Queenslanders made a clear call...
Read MoreGas Report Response: Stop exporting the lion’s share of gas, and avoid fracking risk to agriculture
November 24, 2017
Farmers and regional communities have a clear response to the Offshore South East Australia Future Gas Supply Study: don’t frack our land and take our water for your gas exports. The report, prepared by the Department of Industry, Innovation and Science, is being used...
Read MoreCALLS FOR ELECTION CANDIDATES TO BE QUESTIONED ON RISKS OF CHINESE RAIL FOR ADANI
November 23, 2017
The decision by QLD Labor and One Nation to commit to blocking a taxpayer-funded rail line for the Adani mine has opened the way to an even more desperate plan by the Indian miner, says Lock the Gate Alliance. As reported in national media,...
Read MoreQld election commitments kill off taxpayer funded Adani loan
November 22, 2017
Lock the Gate has responded to a report that Adani is seeking funding from Chinese state-owned enterprises, and welcomed One Nation’s commitment that it would veto the proposed $1 billion NAIF loan as a condition of forming government. Steve Dickson said on the Alan...
Read MoreNew industry paper: Twice as many people reject the CSG industry as embrace it
November 20, 2017
More than twice as many local people reject the proposed CSG industry for Narrabri in north west NSW than embrace it, a new gas industry research paper has found. GISERA has released its Community Wellbeing and Local Attitudes to Coal Seam Gas report,...
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